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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1985
Page
10
Home grown produce weighing contest invites growers to bring tomatoes cucumbers and cantaloupes to the Aiken Standard for weigh ins during business hours. Heaviest in each category wins 50 dollars. One prize per family. Employees and their families are ineligible. Contest runs through August 16 1985.
The Wagener Town Council hired Gail Kirkland as town clerk at its meeting. They will solicit bids for the $500,000 Community Development Block Grant Wagener Revitalization Project to renovate west side houses. The council asked Town Attorney Danny Busbee to study a contract with Cable Communications Associates Inc. of Hartwell Ga. Mayor Marvin Baugham noted the move could bring cable television to the Wagener area.
Wessinger was installed as president of the North Augusta Rotary at the weekly meeting. William Gladden becomes president-elect for 1985-86, with Charles B. Martin as treasurer, Everard Grain as secretary, and Ron Grickis remaining sergeant-at-arms. Don Senecal previously held the president post.
A photographic exhibit titled Inner Dimensions of the Sea Shell tours by the South Carolina State Museum will show at Aiken Technical College July 11 to 26. It features 20 pairs of color and x ray photos pairing a shell’s surface with its interior architecture. For more information contact ATC at 593 1.
ATC announces summer quarter registration on July 89 from 8 30 a m to 12 30 p m and 5 9 p m with classes starting July 10. Students are urged to choose from ATC technical programs to begin or advance their education and career training. Transferable single courses may be available for students registering from other colleges. contact Counseling Services at ATC for details.
Aiken County Democrats urged Savannah River Plant to prioritize unemployed textile workers for new jobs as Bath Mill nears complete shutdown by September 1985. They cited accelerating SRP job applications and asked Sen. Strom Thurmond, Sen. Ernest Hollings, and Rep. Butler Derrick to press SRP to offer hiring preference to displaced textile workers. Cliff Webb of SRP External Affairs provided a statement in response.
The Aiken Standard notes an error in an earlier article page. Wade Nobles is named principal of Ridge Spring-Monetta Elementary School and director of the migrant worker program. The piece discusses DOE, training at ATC, and political positions on textile industry retraining and funding in Aiken.
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